Grotto: Limited Blue & Red Vinyl LP Eleri Ward “I first heard Gigi’s album

“I first heard Gigi’s album Wind in 2016

This summer sees the Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Eric Clapton’s eponymous first solo album

As human contact and the possibility of unloading our problems to others disappeared

also won two Grammy Awards in 1980

This is a record whose alchemical charge arrives from a reinvention of loud rock shapes into forms both feral and fresh - whilst Hey Colossus can still bludgeon with overamped vigour

Grotto: Limited Blue & Red Vinyl LP Eleri Ward “I first heard Gigi’s albumThe second album from the transatlantic duo Wilma Vritra is richly orchestrated, replete with references to faith, mythology, and the cosmos, its 11 tracks grapple with themes of self preservation and refuge from the world, even as they edge their way to a sort of redemption. Grotto is the work of two musicians separated by an ocean but undoubtedly operating on a shared wavelength. One is Will Archer, a Newcastle born but London based multi